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Trade Negotiations Deputy Directorate
Secretaría de Economía · Ciudad de México · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Anyone from the general public who meets the education and experience requirements for the job can apply, as well as public servants who are interested. Mexicans and foreigners whose immigration status allows them to do the job can apply.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Holds a degree
Accepted degrees:
- Administración
- Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública
- Ciencias Sociales
- Computación e Informática
- Derecho
- Economía
- Finanzas
- Mercadotecnia y Comercio
- and 2 more
Experience: 3 years of experience
In these areas:
- Information and communication technologies
- National fiscal policy and public finance
- Industrial organization and government policy
- Business organization and management
- Sector economics
- International economics
- General economics and economic activity
- National law and legislation
- Public administration, international relations and/or political science
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreigner whose immigration status allows the job
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime
- Be able to perform the duties of public service
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of any religion
- Not be barred from public service or have any other legal impediment
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 21 to November 4.
Register at www.trabajaen.gob.mx between October 21 and November 4, 2026. When you accept the contest conditions, the system will give you a participation folio.
To register you need your CURP and RFC, a TrabajaEn account and an up-to-date TrabajaEn CV. When you register for this job you get a folio number: keep it, you need it at every stage.
3 Exams and documents
The stages of the contest:
- Resume review (registration of your resume in TrabajaEn)
- General federal knowledge exam and technical knowledge exam, starting November 9, 2026
- Skills assessment, starting November 12, 2026
- Document review, experience assessment and merit assessment, starting November 17, 2026
- Interview with the Selection Technical Committee, starting November 17, 2026
- Final decision by the Committee
Minimum score: 70 puntos en una escala de 0 a 100 (puntaje mínimo de aptitud). La calificación mínima del examen técnico se indica en el perfil de cada puesto.
Look on TrabajaEn for the topics of the knowledge exam of your job, and check your messages often: that is where your exam and document-check appointments arrive.
Keep in mind:
- If you are missing any document in the document review, you are removed from the contest even if you passed the exams.
- The tolerance is 15 minutes. If you arrive late to a stage, you cannot enter and you are removed.
- Candidates who reach 70 points but do not win go into the job's reserve list for one year.
- TrabajaEn is the only official way of communication. Dates may change.
Documents for the document check (tick them when you have them):
4 Interview and result
The interview is with the Selection Technical Committee: prepare examples of your experience in the duties of the job. Then the committee chooses the winner. If you are a finalist and do not win, you join the candidate reserve for the job for one year.
The duties of the job:
- Gather strategic foreign trade information to assess negotiation scenarios.
- Oversee the preparation of technical notes for negotiation rounds.
- Prepare analysis of tariffs and regulatory barriers for high-level groups.
- Oversee data collection from customs and global databases for sector profiles.
- Analyze follow-up on commitments made under trade agreements.
- Interpret trade statistics and trends to identify import and export risks.
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